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New AI text diffusion models break speed barriers by pulling words from noise

On Thursday, Inception Labs released Mercury Coder, a new AI language model that uses diffusion techniques to generate text faster than conventional models. Unlike traditional models that create text word by word—such as the kind that powers ChatGPT—diffusion-based models like Mercury produce entire responses simultaneously, refining them from an initially masked state into coherent text....

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Copilot exposes private GitHub pages, some removed by Microsoft

Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant is exposing the contents of more than 20,000 private GitHub repositories from companies including Google, Intel, Huawei, PayPal, IBM, Tencent and, ironically, Microsoft. These repositories, belonging to more than 16,000 organizations, were originally posted to GitHub as public, but were later set to private, often after the developers responsible realized they...

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The surveillance tech waiting for workers as they return to the office

Scan the online brochures of companies who sell workplace monitoring tech and you’d think the average American worker was a renegade poised to take their employer down at the next opportunity. “Nearly half of US employees admit to time theft!” “Biometric readers for enhanced accuracy!” “Offer staff benefits in a controlled way with Vending Machine...

Roberta Flack: The original quiet storm
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Roberta Flack: The original quiet storm

When Roberta Flack rocketed to superstardom in the early 1970s, she was something of an anomaly. The classically trained pianist, vocalist and gifted song stylist did not easily fit in the gritty decade of arguably the artistic apex of rhythm and blues and funk. And yet the Flack, who died February 25 at the age...